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Originally Posted by Hesla
What do you mean by lost the war ?
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7130602
Some cancers (eg testicular) are nearing a 100% survival rate. Medications (eg Tamoxifen for breast cancer) are vastly reducing the chance of return. I say we are making steady progress. |
I understand that this has more to do with an overall improvement in diagnostics, so people are living longer after diagnosis, but not longer in absolute terms.
Outside of a few miracle treatments, the overall mortality rate has only decreased by 5%. A lot of that has to do with lifestyle changes - deaths attributed to lung cancer are decreasing because far less people in the western world are smoking.
The number of unnecessary treatments, tests, and surgeries are at an all-time high with very little evidence to suggest they are at all effective.
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article....icleid=1722196